Competing for the English Masters team at the “Asda Foundation Yorkshire Marathon” at York Crawley’s Katherine Owens had a fine run to place third overall but win the F35 group. Owens, who has only been running seriously for little more than a year clocked 2:55.14s, which was only a few seconds outside her personal best, […]
Harries in Doha – Relays at Goodwood
Toby Harries (Brighton Phoenix) is the sole Sussex athlete with the United Kingdom team at the World Championships at Doha which start today. Following his fine fifth place in the 400 metres final at the recent National Championships Harries, who clocked a Pb of 46.36s in the heats, has been included in the 4 x […]
Two Golds And A Bronze For Sussex Teams At The Palace
There were six top ten places for Sussex teams in the South of England Road Relay championships at Crystal Place on Sunday. In the W40 category Arena 80 finished in gold position in 1:10.27 while the Brighton and Hove VM50 team matched the accolade in 1:19.43. Earlier in the day, the U17 women from Brighton […]
Lockwood and Tutton top the podium
There were golds for Eastbourne’s Pyers Lockwood and Lewes AC’s Gemma Tutton, as well as several other medals, at the English U17/U15 championships in mixed conditions at Bedford last weekend. English Schools U17 400m hurdles champion Pyers Lockwood (Eastbourne) completed a magnificent season with a convincing U17 victory in 55.81 seconds. While the second gold […]
Brilliant second place for Intermediate girls at Birmingham
The Sussex Intermediate Girls (U17) turned in a tremendous performance to place equal second in the team event at the English Schools Championships at Birmingham at the weekend. For the English Schools Championships, the 45 counties are divided into four groups and a decade ago Sussex was moved into the ‘A’ group of the eleven […]
Crawley Men third but Women struggle in National Leagues
Following the cancellation of their first match, the Crawley men made a good start to their British League Division two season at Chelmsford, last weekend, with a fine third team placing. The match was won by home team Havering with 325 points to Glasgow’s 316 and the Sussex club’s 290 points. Matt Lasis made an […]